maestitia Latin · revision 9604

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la maestus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [mae̯sˈtɪ.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [mesˈtit.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''maestitia''' ''f'' (genitive maestitiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''moestitia''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[maestus]] “sad” with the suffix [[-itia]], like [[trīstitia]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) ⟨Maestus⟩ is related to [[maereō]] “to grieve”, which de Vaan reconstructs as [[itc-pro|*mais-|t=sad, grief]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was sadness, sorrow, grief, dejection, and a source of grief, as in Plautus and Cicero; and of things dullness, gloom, as in Columella.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for sadness, grief, sorrow, as in Bede.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of gloom.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|sadness|alt=Sadness]], sorrow, dejection.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Dullness, gloom.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[maestus]]

+ * [[maereō]]

+ * [[maeror]]

+ * [[trīstitia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}